Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-16

handkerch1etS Of Oriental manulacIulo alo much used for keeping back these fancy cur tains. ofatpe and light terra cotta being the favorites It is not tinfrequent to see Lon don house with these colored handkerchIefs in each window from attic to basement. In drawing room paper Japanese fans are sometimes pushed into the handkerchief, and opened plush set in gilt mounts like little fans; with a hook and eye to fasten them to-
 gether behind the curtain, are very fashiona- ble. Broad sash ribbon tied in bow is often seen, and it is not an unknown thing
 to see black ribbon used when the family are in deep mourning.
 STARTLING RESULTS.
 Cerebral Phenomena in Connection With Alcoholism.
 FPoliuto in the Chicago Times.l
 In going from London to Dublin 1 had
 purchased round trip tickets. The route
 was by rail to Hollyhead on the coast of
 Wales, thence by steamer across the Irish
 sea to Kingstown, Ireland, and then by rail
 to Dublin.
 Under the guidance of MT. Dil1on's seere-
 tary, while visiting the various points of 1n-
 terest, was induced to drink good deal of
 Irish whiskey. The people whom we en-
 countered were sociable and pressing ln their
 hospitality, the more especially as the guest
 was an American, for whom 1t dld not seem that they could do enough.
 The last day of my stay the potations were frequent and the leave taking effusiye and
 impressive. I never was fond of alcoholic drinks, but my scruples against extended H.
 bations were met by the assertion that Irish whiskey was pure extract, without head ache or other ill after effects. My associates would toss off three glasses to my one, the
 meanwhile exhibiting no signs Of intoxiea- tion.
 The train was to leave about four o'clock
 oft la hafo hot
 hour my escort bade me goodbye and left
 me at the Shelbourne House. My head was
 perfectly clear up to this point. Neither any of the party nor myself was unduly exhila- rated. There was none of the boisterous- ness, the raised voices, characteristic of inc briety. There was simply stimulated good feeling, so to speak, when parted. I called for my bill, paid it and had carriage sent to take me to the depot. I entered the vehicle, waved salute to the porter and started.
 It was daylight and I was seated in first class compartment in railway train. l glanced out of the window and recognized the hedges and the quaint farm houses of England Two men were in the compart ment besides myself. l glanced in their faces and saw nothing to excite uneasiness- that IS there was nothing in their conversa- tion or their attitude toward me to indicate that there was anything unusual in the sltu- ation. A moment before I was in a carriage leaving the Shelbourne House, and the next moment 1 was speeding through England; in fact it was not five minutes after 1 found myself in the car before the smoke of Lon don began to appear on the horizon, and but little later when the train halted in Huston station. In time, as railways measure it, the distance between Dublin and London is seventeen hours. For that period then 1t
 soon dawned on me, had been unconscious.
 People who have ever passed the bounds
 of sobriety in their use of liquor know what
 constitutes the ordinary nature of intoxica-
 tion. There is variation of course, accord
 ing to the nerves, the brain the physical
 condition of the person. In the case of
 none, however, does it happen that ths mo-
 ments of apparent insensibility are really absolute blanks. The intoxicated person will have dim glimmerings through the darkness in which he fingered; that he part ed with this or that person at such point; that he mounted entered carriage, or that he saw the acquaintance during the period of his drunkenness. Such was not my experience. The ordinary form of ln- toxication leaves an impression of a lapse Of time of greater or less duration. In my case the hotel in Dublin and Huston were separa- ted by no time save such the brief minutes elapsed after 1 recovered consciousness up to reaching the station. I must have been driv en to the depot, where I entered the cars and was taken by them to Kingston. At that point must have gone aboard the packet, and on reaching Holyhead I must have gone from the boat to the London train. Now all this accomplished without diff fculty, for my clothing undisturbed in any manner, and my watch, money and everything else in place as they were when I left Dublin.
 It is impossible to conceive that I was I assisted into trains, or off and on the boat, or was carried, for the reason that my hair and clothing were in perfect order. l had certainly undergone no handling the part of strangers. I had evidently, if I | may judge by the attitude of the two men | in the compartment with me, been guilty | of no indiscretion or anything unseem1y 1 when entering the car, they would have 1 watched me with curious glances when l ! woke.
 ! In the condition in which I was plunged, for seventeen hours of which 1 have no re ! membrance whatever, must have appeared ! no different from the ordinary traveller and have attracted no especial attention. In 1 other words, to use common expression, l ! must have been Edrunk" to most extraor- | dinary extent; so much so that memory ut l terly failed me, and yet in condition in | which I was able to conduct myself and my ! affairs in a manner to attract no notice. Here were clearly two conditions in which l I was placed at the same moment, each of 1 which is exactly unlike the other-antago | nistic in every particular. 1 was two dis. | tinct persons, one of whom was intoxicated I to profound insensibility, and the other of whom was able to select routes, change from one class of vehicle of transportation to an | other, to hand out tickets, presumably in all ways to conduct himself so as to be above 1 the suspicion of being in an abnormal condi- { tion. I was grossly intoxicated in one sense and not the least in another. Had my inebriation been of the usual character I ! should have lost the greater portion of my ! remembrance of what occurred, and 1 should have been helpless in limbs and incapable of locomotion, speech or intelligent intercourse | with others.
 Involved in this experience must be some cerebral functions that were not operated in
 a normal manner. The phenomena of the l experience point to brain conditions that are little or not at all known, and whose possi- | ble results are innunerable and likely to be ! startling Assuming the truth of my con-
 clusion that while in this dual condition | there was one part of me-the dominant ! part-that was able to transact business, to
 have the appearance of entire sobriety, it is l easy to conceive situations in which broader consequences might have ensued. It is pos l sible to fancy that willie thus conditioned l l might have signed notes, contracted mar l riage committed larceny even murder, | without having the slightest consciousness of | it when I resumed my normal state. l I have experienced the ordinary and com | mon results of the average form of inebr1e-
 ty often enough to be entirely prepared to re- 1 move my Dublin journey so far from the cer- ! ebral domain of the other. l make this | avowal concerning experience in the ef- l feets of intoxicants the more readily ln VleW of the fact that for many years have been l total abstinent in regard to every form ot stimulants, not exclusive even of cider Pooling a High Toned Audience. From the American Musieian.l The s'little German band" was lucky that 1 happened to play under the Belmont win | dows the other afternoon. They were fair specimen of their kind, blaring and noisy, vet correct in their time and all together in movement from long practice. The butler of the Belmonts started out to drive them
 away. for they interrupted the music with in, but Mrs. Belmont ordered him to
 invite them in. A happy thought struck
 her. "Ladies and gentlemen" said the
 master of ceremonies, five minutes later
 ''a party af our friends have consented
 to give an imitation of a street band. I now have the pleasure of introducing